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NCS National Roundtable





The Emerson Centre of Excellence (CoE) for Sustainability Studies at TERI SAS organized the National Roundtable on Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) with support from The Nature Conservancy (TNC). This National Roundtable was a culmination of 16 State-level Roundtables organised through collaboration with the State Forest Departments in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal Odisha, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Jammu and Kashmir, and Uttarakhand.

Deliberations from Prof. Shaleen Singhal, Director Emerson CoE, TERI SAS, Project In-Charge, NCS; Prof. Suman Kumar Dhar, Vice Chancellor TERI SAS; Mr William McGoldrick, Regional Managing Director of Asia Pacific, TNC; Dr. Anjali Acharya, Managing Director, Nature Conservancy India Solutions (NCIS); Mr Rajesh S Kumar, IFS, Inspector General of Forests, Government of India; Smt. Kanchan Devi, DG, Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE); Dr. N Bala, ICFRE; Dr. Deep Narayan Pandey, (Former PCCF HoFF, Rajasthan) Senior Consultant, NCS, TERI SAS; Dr. Sudipto Chatterjee, Program Director, NCIS, enriched the discussions at the National Roundtable.

Senior level forest officials, practitioners from think tanks, faculty members, PhD Scholars, Post- graduate scholars from various colleges, joined the event on campus and through online mode.